This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.

This Website Uses CookiesBy closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Learn MoreThis website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.

ENR's 2018 Construction Photography Contest Winners

Photographer Debbie Skrynski’s day job as a nine-year driver for Dimension Fabricators led to her adopting photography as an added function for the rebar maker—and as a passion . Here, workers of specialty contractor American Pile & Foundation rig a just-delivered drilled-shaft rebar cage at Newark, N.J., airport’s $2.7-billion new terminal site. “I looked down inside the cage just as ironworkers were reaching in to hook the shackle ... and I had my shot!” says Skrynski, adding the image “depicts the teamwork required” in placing cages. Her photo mentor and frequent passenger was the late Roy Stevens, father of Dimension founder Scott Stevens and himself a past ENR photo contest winner, says firm media specialist Lindsey Stevens, who praises Skrynski’s “ability to connect with people.”

But the images, in many cases, are themselves products of individuals connecting. That link between the photo artist and his or her jobsite subject, even unplanned and for a brief few seconds, can tell a unique story that benefits both—whether it’s the electrical crew disappearing into tight quarters, the lined face of a veteran superintendent or the energy of an eager craftworker.

A woman ironworker helps a photographer maneuver for better vantage in an off-limits work area, producing a winning image for him and new industry status for her and peers.

Repeat contest winner Marie Tagudena put it just right, noting how her photo taken on the Gerald Desmond bridge in California would be just “falsework and beams” without the timing of a worker who entered the shot at the perfect moment to show “that sense of movement, of work being done.”

Events

On March 21, 2019, hundreds of your colleagues will gather at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City for ENR's 54th Annual Award of Excellence Black-Tie Gala. Just like past events, in 2019 you will have the opportunity to network with more than 1,000 construction leaders and make critical connections, while joining us to celebrate the Top 25 Newsmakers for their achievements in 2018 and be inspired by the Award of Excellence Winner.